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WWW.SANJAC.EDU News from Students join San Jac and Texas Chemical 2 your College 3 vaccination effort 4 Council partner for safety SANJAC.EDU HOUSTON CHRONICLE CUSTOM ADVERTISING SECTION SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 2021 2 <<< Houston Chronicle Custom Advertising Section | Opportunity News | Sunday | March 7, 2021 sanjac.edu NEWS FROM YOUR COLLEGE Take 8-week classes regardless of which course type they and William Palko. Alumni also have select. Services include online tutoring the opportunity to give back to the after spring break and advising, on-campus document programs that helped them during their drop-off, and virtual appointments time at San Jac. Whether their resource San Jacinto College’s second set of for things such as admissions, career was a scholarship, an academic or eight-week spring classes (8B) begin services, dual credit, financial aid, technical department, the food market, Monday, March 22, 2021, making it the testing, veteran services, and more. or emergency funding, there is always an perfect time to tackle your educational Photo courtesy of San Jacinto College Visit sanjac.edu/my-way to learn opportunity to pay it forward. Lifetime goals. Whether you’re looking to further more and to register. and one-year alumni association your career, enhance your skills, or occur at specific times on certain days, memberships are available. just try a new hobby, San Jac has you just as a typical face-to-face course Calling all For more information about ways to covered. Registration is open now for would occur. join, get involved, or give to the San these spring 8B classes. • FACE-to-FACE classes will take place San Jac alumni Jacinto College Alumni Association, Plus, if you’re already registered as a in person on campus, with reduced class visit sanjac.edu/alumni and sign up San Jac student this spring, the College sizes and social distancing measures. The San Jacinto College Foundation for the alumni newsletter, like the San will help cover the cost of tuition for an • Hands-On HYBRID is for the is relaunching the San Jac Alumni Jacinto College Alumni Association on extra 8B class if you add an additional technical and applied skill courses. Association and invites all alumni to join Facebook, or email [email protected]. course to your existing schedule! Visit Most class instruction will be delivered and reconnect with the College. sanjac.edu/grants to learn more. online. Students will come to campus Whether you were a member of the College brings Students have multiple options for in small groups to complete hands-on College’s original graduating class or spring course delivery with “San Jac My learning and practical testing. one of the students who celebrated via a aerospace education Way,” which offers five different ways to • The FLEX Campus option allows virtual ceremony for 2020 spring and fall to local elementary, learn, both in person and online: students to spend some time in the commencement, the alumni association Online Anytime, Online on a Schedule, classroom with an instructor, in addition has a space for all San Jac grads. With middle school students Face-to-Face, Hands-On Hybrid, and to online learning. Small groups of the cost of higher education steadily on Flex Campus. students in each class will have the the rise and the current pandemic forcing Ringing in 2021 means San Jacinto • ONLINE Anytime allows students option to attend in person, following many students to put their education College Aerospace Education is kicking to take classes online, at any time. all CDC and College health and safety on hold, alumni can make an impact for off the Pathway to the Stars after- This is the most flexible of the four protocols, while the remaining students current students through memberships school programs. Beginning last spring, options, allowing students to work on will access the same coursework online. or donations to the San Jacinto College 20 elementary school campuses and coursework whenever their schedule The small groups will rotate so all Alumni Association. one middle school campus across five allows, without having to come students in a class have multiple chances Proceeds from each membership school districts began learning and to campus. to attend in person, although it’s never a purchased or donations received experimenting with lessons relating to • The ONLINE on a Schedule option requirement to attend in person. support the Alumni Scholarship NASA’s Artemis and Forward to the also delivers coursework online, but Student services will remain available Fund, established by the association’s Moon exploration programs. the lectures and virtual instruction will to all students enrolled this spring, founding members Dr. Charles Grant News continued on page 5 SAN JAC HAPPENINGS DATE EVENT TIME SITE March 8 FAFSA Days and Nights workshop 10 a.m.-12 p.m. & 2-4 p.m. Online: Email [email protected] for Zoom link March 9 CPD: Stretching Your Dollar During a Pandemic 12-1 p.m. Online: Register at [email protected] or call 281-476-1893 March 10 Softball vs. Kilgore College 2 p.m. & 4 p.m. South Campus softball field S25 March 13 Baseball vs. Galveston College 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. North Campus John Ray Harrison Field at Andy Pettitte Park N22 March 15-21 Spring break holiday College closed All campuses and online classes March 16 Baseball vs. Alvin Community College 6 p.m. North Campus John Ray Harrison Field at Andy Pettitte Park N22 March 20 Softball vs. Galveston College 2 p.m. & 4 p.m. South Campus softball field S25 March 20 Baseball vs. Alvin Community College 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. North Campus John Ray Harrison Field at Andy Pettitte Park N22 March 22 FAFSA Days and Nights workshop 10 a.m.-12 p.m. & 2-4 p.m. Online: Email [email protected] for Zoom link March 23 CPD: Stretching Your Dollar During a Pandemic 12-1 p.m. Online: Register at [email protected] or call 281-476-1893 March 24 CPD: Summer Camps Info Session 10-11 a.m. Online: Register at [email protected] or call 281-476-1893 March 25 CPD: Conversational Spanish 12-1 p.m. Online: Register at [email protected] or call 281-476-1893 March 25 Baseball vs. Coastal Bend College 2 p.m. North Campus John Ray Harrison Field at Andy Pettitte Park N22 March 27 Softball vs. Coastal Bend College 2 p.m. & 4 p.m. South Campus softball field S25 March 29 FAFSA Days and Nights workshop 10 a.m.-12 p.m. & 2-4 p.m. Online: Email [email protected] for Zoom link March 31 CPD: Medicare 101 12-1 p.m. Online: Register at [email protected] or call 281-476-1893 All times and event schedules listed are subject to change. For more information, visit sanjac.edu. sanjac.edu Sunday | March 7, 2021 | Opportunity News | Houston Chronicle Custom Advertising Section >>> 3 ERL/Law VaLVE of TExas cRafTs TRaining aid foR coLLEgE's maRiTimE pRogRam By Melissa Trevizo The training barge trailer features train our mariners with hands-on, SAN JACINTO COLLEGE functional high-level and overfill alarms real-life working equipment.” with cutaways, allowing students The Maritime Technology and The San Jacinto College Maritime enrolled in the tank barge and tank ship Training Center, located on the Houston Technology and Training Center received courses to experience hands-on training Ship Channel’s Bayport Turning Basin, a new tank barge training trailer for its in a safe environment. Students can offers more that 72 USCG-approved incumbent and credit students thanks also observe pressure/vacuum valves maritime courses and a full range of to ERL Commercial Marine (ERL)/Law and an expansion truck with cutaways non-credit courses for professional Valve of Texas. to display, a gauge tree, reach rods, gate Photo by Melissa Trevizo, San Jacinto College mariners. The facility also houses three “Training aids such as this provide a valve, and rising stick gauges. The San Jacinto College Maritime Technology full mission bridge simulators, a marine low-risk environment for current and “We have incorporated the ERL/ and Training Center received a new tank engineering lab, a fire field with modular future mariners alike to increase their Law Valve barge trailer into our United barge training trailer for its incumbent and fire trainer, and two navigation labs. credit students thanks to ERL Commercial knowledge of mission critical marine States Coast Guard-approved tankerman Marine (ERL)/Law Valve of Texas. From left to “We value our partnership with equipment,” said Craig Theiler, general courses,” said Amy Arrowood, director, right: John Stauffer, associate vice chancellor, ERL/Law Valve and are so excited to have manager, ERL/Law Valve of Texas. “Pair credit program, Maritime Technology maritime technology and training center; received the new training tank barge this with the quality of instruction and Training Center. “This allows Edward Horton, director maritime commercial; trailer,” said John Stauffer, associate vice San Jac provides, and we are able to students to become familiar with actual Amy Arrowood, director maritime credit; Sean chancellor, Maritime Technology and Ragains, ERL; and Craig Theiler, general make significant progress towards our equipment they will be using once they manager, Law Valve of Texas. Training Center. “This training aid allows collective goal of providing a skilled begin the next level of their maritime us to provide the vital hands-on training maritime workforce to help strengthen career as a licensed tankerman.” partners like San Jacinto College. our students need to ensure they possess the economy and make the maritime ERL/Law Valve of Texas currently “All of us at ERL, especially the the necessary skills and knowledge to industry a safer place to work.” crafts hundreds of products on more than skilled craftsman that built this training successfully and safely work on 10,000 compartments for nearly 300 platform, want to thank San Jacinto tank barges.” different customers, providing safe and College for giving us the opportunity To learn more about the San Jacinto reliable products to most inland and blue to work with them on this tank barge College Maritime Technology and water barges.